Noun
breaking news (uncountable)
News that has either just happened or is currently happening.
Breaking news may contain incomplete information, factual errors, or poor editing because of a rush to publication.
I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out. Glenn Beck
Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories. David Talbot
If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved. Tabitha Soren
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air. Tabitha Soren
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. Dee Dee Myers